Clock solitaire |
One card set is (52 cards) used in clock solitaire. Each card corresponds to one hour.
J one o'clock 2,3,...,10 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock etc. A 11 o'clock Q 12 o'clock K centre of the clock board
We give out cards placing (covers up) 4 cards per each hour and centre of clock board. The aim if the game is to uncover all the cards and rearranging them so that each card lies on its corresponding hour.
The first move is to uncover the lowest card from the centre. Holding one
card in hand we can make only one sort of movement - place the card on its
corresponding hour (or in the centre if it is a king) and take the lowest
card from its heap. We iterate this procedure as long as possible.
The game is successful if you manage to uncover all the cards and - consequently - lost if even single card remains uncovered.
Widely known International Association of Solitaire Fans was curious which
card sequence produces best results (meaning highest number of successful
games). You are to help them by writing a program which reads the initial
cards layout and checks how many of 52 cyclic shifts of this string are
successful.
7 J 9 3 J Q K A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 T 8 Q K A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 T J Q K A 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 T J Q K A 2 T 4 5 6 0
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